About this Event
In this special screening within the Community of Images exhibition with artist and musician Yasunao Tone, curator Go Hirasawa will organize a program featuring Tone’s film and film scores. Yasunao Tone will be at the screening.
Yasunao Tone, 2,880K=120", 1964, 3 min, 16mm film transferred to digital, b/w
Masao Adachi, Galaxy, 1967, 75 min, 16mm film transferred to digital, color and b/w
Motoharu Jōnouchi, Shelter Plan, 1964, 25 min, 16mm film transferred to digital, b/w
Yasunao Tone (b.1935, Tokyo) began his career in Tokyo as a member of Group Ongaku along with Takehisa Kosugi, Mieko Shiomi and others. Tone was also involved with the Japanese avant-garde art collectives Neo-Dada Organizers and Hi-Red Center, and is counted among the members of Fluxus group. Tone moved to New York permanently in 1972, and became part of Fluxus NY, Downtown improvisers, and the European electronica experimentalists.
As part of one-time event A Commercial for Myself (December 16–17, 1964) for Film Indépendent, a group for producing and screening independent and experimental films, Yasunao Tone made the film 2,880K=120". Tone contributed his film score for Masao Adachi’s Galaxy, a film considered the first feature-length experimental film to be produced in post-war Japan. Tone is featured, along with Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, and others in Shelter Plan by Motoharu Jōnouchi who was part of the Van Film Science Research Center. The film is a document of an infamous Shelter Plan organized by Hi Red Center in a room at the Imperial Hotel.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Lightbox Film Center at the University of the Arts, Caplan Recital Hall, 17th Floor, Terra Hall, 211 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, United States
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